Sentences with phrase «as a reservoir from»

The capital region still serves as a reservoir from which patients travel to rural areas and spark fresh outbreaks, De Cock says — and now that the rainy season has ended, travel may pick up.

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Harris County officials warned residents to evacuate as they released water from overflowing reservoirs to alleviate pressure on two dams, a move that would add to flooding along the Buffalo Bayou waterway that runs through the area.

Some interpreters of reincarnation emphasize deeds as acts, others as knowledge, and still others as love, but from whatever aspect of self we act, the result is stored in the reservoir.

Xi Jinping's still waging a war against the sport as Mao had done decades prior, shuttering 110 courses across China just last year for reasons ranging from corruption to being too close to a water reservoir.

In a new study published in Mucosal Immunology, researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) report that human breast milk serves as a reservoir for bio-molecules that help to resolve inflammation and combat infection.

The baby gets most of her calcium from your bones, which act as a kind of calcium «reservoir.»

Kellogg said that for her and her running mates, the big challenges facing Hurley are, «Making a change in our local government, protecting the quality of life that we have in Hurley as development pressures move up the Thruway, protecting our water and the beautiful scenic qualities of our town, and maintaining our low tax rates as NYS mandates additional responsibilities to the localities without providing funding (at the same time that they cap our annual budget increases) and as we get additional pressures from New York City to reduce their tax contributions for the reservoir property.»

The plant seeks permission to purchase up to 1.75 million gallons of water each day from the City of Kingston's Cooper Lake reservoir, as well as truck in spring water from other local sources.

Nelson and her colleagues found that flu in pigs «follows long - distance swine movements from the southern U.S. to the Midwest,» with most of the human - origin H1N1 arriving at Midwest hog farms coming from the Southeast, and most of the swine - origin H1N2 coming from the south - central U.S. And that means the Midwest, as the final destination for many of these pigs, is «likely to provide a reservoir for multiple genetically distinct variants to co-circulate and exchange segments via re-assortment because of the continual importation of swine influenza viruses from other regions,» the researchers noted.

From April 20, 2000 (top), to April 26, 2013, reservoir levels have dipped as drought persists.

A 2004 report from the agency found that people view recycled water that has passed through an aquifer or reservoir as being cleaner, though in some cases the recycled water is actually of higher quality than the natural sources it joins.

Joint first author of the study, microbiologist Dr Jo Fothergill said: «We have discovered that the nasopharynx acts as a silent reservoir for bacteria from which more serious infections in the lungs can develop.»

The researchers speculate that the streaks formed when water bubbled up from a subsurface reservoir and ran down the gullies, leaving behind a pale - toned trail of sedimentation that is seen in the Surveyor snapshots as a bright line against a darker background.

But even as the drought began and then worsened, with surface water vanishing, the West dug in and doubled down — replacing dwindling reservoirs with new water pumped from underground.

In recent years, dental calculus has emerged as an unexpected, but valuable, long - term reservoir of ancient DNA from dietary and microbial sources.

The results suggest that oil from the new reservoir, called Jack 2, could cost three to four times as much to extract as oil from traditional locations, including rigs on land.

For 35 years oil services companies such as Denbury Resources and Kinder Morgan have piped carbon dioxide from naturally occurring reservoirs in Colorado to the declining oil fields of the Permian Basin in West Texas.

Since planets form from the same reservoir of gas and dust as their stars, astronomers use the chemical makeup of a star to see what material was available to the growing planets.

The device is a unique example of microfluidics technology, sometimes called a lab - on - a-chip, that pushes water around in microscopic tubes and reservoirs made from the same cellophanelike plastic as soft contact lenses.

Landrø has studied everything from putting seismic data to work to discover new undersea oil reservoirs to visualizing what happens to CO2 injected into an undersea reservoir, as is being done now in the Sleipner Field in the North Sea.

Defenses such as levees, bunds, reservoirs, and weirs are used to prevent rivers from bursting their banks.

The new genomic catalog contains nearly 200 viral genomes collected from patient samples in Sierra Leone and Nigeria, as well as field samples from the major animal reservoir, or host, of Lassa virus — the rodent Mastomys natalensis, also called the multimammate rat.

«It's possible that the mobility of charcoal on the landscape and it's tendency to become concentrated in low - lying spots could make it more likely the charcoal from wildfires becomes buried and incorporated deep in soils and that these deposits act as a kind of charcoal reservoir that releases charcoal into the soil over long time spans.»

It can then be sucked back out as the natural gas is extracted from the reservoir, meaning that there is a virtually complete recovery of the fracking fluid; water - based methods have roughly a 50 percent recovery rate.

The team collected samples of methane from settings such as lakes, swamps, natural gas reservoirs, the digestive tracts of cows, and deep ancient groundwater, as well as methane made by microbes in the lab.

A study published on September 24th in PLOS Pathogens reports results from macaques and humans that suggest an important role for adipose (fat) tissue as an HIV reservoir with inflammatory potential.

Water pressure and thermal shock are intense as oil from the reservoir bubbles up into the well at 140 degrees Fahrenheit, only to hit near - freezing temperatures at the ocean floor, which can cause it to coagulate in the pipes.

Professor Luca Caricchi adds: «When we determine the age of a family of zircons from a small sample of solidified magmatic rock, using results from the mathematical model we have developed, we can tell what the size of the entire magma chamber was, as well as how fast the magma reservoir grew.»

These basaltic meteorites from 4 - Vesta are known as eucrites and carry a unique signature of one of the oldest hydrogen reservoirs in the solar system.

For periods of movement lasting less than two seconds, the bead was almost as likely to gain energy from the water as it was to add energy to the reservoir, the investigators say.

For the first time, satellites and ground - based detectors have watched as a tendril of plasma unfurls from a reservoir around the planet and creates a protective buffer.

As the child grows and the spine expands, doctors would send a wireless signal to adjust the implant — which has been tested in sheep but is at least three years away from human trials — opening a valve that moves fluid from the implant's reservoir into the piston to increase the implant's hydraulic pressure.

The research, published in Nature Geoscience and led by researchers from the Université Libre de Bruxelles, the University of Exeter, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et l'Environnement, the University of Hawai'i and ETH Zürich, has for the first time shown that increased leaching of carbon from soil, mainly due to deforestation, sewage inputs and increased weathering, has resulted in less carbon being stored on land and more stored in rivers, streams, lakes, reservoirs, estuaries and coastal zones — environments that are together known as the «land - ocean aquatic continuum».

This may be explained by our finding of a high rate of subclinical infection by TMAdV in asymptomatic titi monkeys (35 %), but may also be due to separate introductions of TMAdV into the colony from an as - yet unidentified reservoir.

Taxonomic study of aerobic thermophilic bacilli: descriptions of Geobacillus subterraneus gen. nov, sp. nov. and Geobacillus uzenensis sp. nov. from petroleum reservoirs and transfer of Bacillus stearothermophilus, Bacillus thermocatenulatus, Bacillus thermoleovorans, Bacillus kaustophilus, Bacillus thermodenitrificans to Geobacillus as the new combinations G. stearothermophilus, G. thermocatenulatus, G. thermoleovorans, G. kaustophilus, G. thermoglucosidasius and G. thermodenitrificans.

Faster sea floor spreading, presumably associated with more volcanic activity at subduction zones, and / or other increases in volcanic activity or geologic outgassing, or faster oxidation of exposed fossil organic C (as in shales)-- greater geologic CO2 emissions (I think another way of looking at the inorganic part is that any given region of sea floor has less time to accumulate carbonate minerals from chemical weathering, so that C reservoir could shrink while others, including the atmosphere, can grow).

«It is not likely that a new emergence from the wildlife reservoir will occur, as the genetic data say pretty strongly that this has all been caused by one emergence event.

In Stiff Person Syndrome, which is a rare autoimmune disease in the central nervous system with autoantibodies targeting glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD65), the humoral autoimmune response was shown to consist of a Rituximab - sensitive part rapidly cleared after treatment, and a Rituximab - resistant part from long - lived and persistent plasma cells acting as a reservoir for secretion of autoantibodies.

This material gathers into huge turbulent reservoirs of cool, low - density gas, extending more than 30 000 light - years from the galaxy's star forming region [3] These turbulent reservoirs of diffuse gas may be of the same nature as the giant glowing haloes seen around distant quasars..

The team determined that galactic winds alone could not replenish the newly revealed gaseous reservoirs and suggests that the mass is provided by galactic mergers or accretion from hidden streams of gas, as predicted by current theory.

Genetic and genomic analysis of nucleic acids from environmental samples has helped transform our perception of the subsurface as a major reservoir of microbial novelty.

On one nanotube a metal particle serves as an atom reservoir that can source or sink atoms to or from the nanocrystal ram.

At the growing tip of plants sits a reservoir for stem cells, called the meristem, from which new organs, such as leaves, arise.

Saliva helps keep teeth clean by removing food debris from tooth surfaces, neutralizing mouth acidity, and acting as a reservoir for the minerals our teeth need to build strong enamel.

Excess calories, regardless of whether they are from carbs, fats or proteins, are shuttled into your lipocytes (fat cells) where they sit as a reservoir of excess energy until it is needed.

Adults are 1) more self - directed problem solvers as they mature, 2) have a greater reservoir of experiences and define themselves based on their experiences, 3) adult readiness to learn is based on life phases, and 4) adults change from future oriented to a more immediate problem based, performance centered learners.

As a teenager I spent my formative years pounding rubbish cars on these very roads and one of my all - time favourites is the A4212 that takes you from Bala, around the Celyn reservoir and on towards the west Welsh coast.

A three - link was used in the rear as well and is sprung using 12 - inch - travel, 21⁄2 - inch - diameter King remote - reservoir shocks with lift springs from Coil Spring Specialties.

He reveals the most daunting water issues we face today, among them the threat of flooding in China's Yellow River, where rising silt levels will prevent dykes from containing floodwaters; the impoverishment of Pakistan's Sindh, a once - fertile farming valley now destroyed by the 14 million tons of salt that the much - depleted Indus deposits annually on the land but can not remove; the disappearing Colorado River, whose reservoirs were once the lifeblood of seven states but which could dry up as soon as 2007; and the poisoned springs of Palestine and the Jordan River, where Israeli control of the water supply has only fed conflict between Israelis and Palestinians.

Keynote: How Business Executives Succeed When Facing Public Policy Challenges Former U.S. Secretary of Commerce and Transportation Norman Mineta will offer examples from his vast reservoir of experience as to how business executives can ensure their views are properly represented in the government decision - making process.